... of the Palestinian refugee presence in Lebanon. Examining some of the more prominent discursive strands that emerge in relation to Palestinian refugee presence in Lebanon, the article argues that although the recent problematization of Hezbollah initially dwarfed the Palestinian “problem,” Palestinian presence...

..., ways that would require Christians and Muslims to constitute themselves, or be constituted, as proper legal subjects. raja.abillama@boun.edu.tr Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 secularism Christian-Muslim coexistence Lebanon Middle East law religion In the early...

...Jean-Michel Landry Abstract In recent years, the problem of gender-based custody allocation has sparked intense mobilization across the Middle East. In Lebanon, Sunni and Shi‘i citizens led two parallel campaigns to modify the sharia-derived norms enforced in custody disputes. Their efforts...

... Bread, Freedom, Independence: Opposition to Nazi Germany in Lebanon and Syria and the Struggle for a Just Order Götz Nordbruch...

...Malek Abisaab Studies on colonial Lebanon explain social change and the engagement with the state from the perspective of the rural landed elites and urban notables. Lebanon is usually investigated as a place for exhibiting or reconciling diverse sectarian cultures that ultimately develop...

... nteRfgeCmso Lebanon of Camps Refugee the in Commemoration Palestinian Mourning: and Memory of Places iyPes 91;Pte,“rnfrigTut Dispossession in Refugees,” Trust: Palestinian “Transforming among Empowerment Peteet, and 1991); Press, sity...

... A origTasomdt Sacrifice to Transformed Mourning Lebanon: in Ashura Living...

...Kristin V. Monroe Based on newspaper resources from Lebanon’s French mandate period (1920–46), Monroe’s essay offers a new perspective to a developing global historiography of automobility by considering, in a provisional way and primarily as a basis for further research, how the driving of cars...

...Owain Lawson Abstract This article writes engineers into the history of Lebanese political-economic thought. Historians of Lebanon's postindependence period have emphasized how a narrow, elite “consortium” espoused a national ideology that authorized laissez-faire monetary and trade policies...

.... Particular historical actors are valorized and emphasized, as they become protagonists of the national narrative. Often the outlines of the present-day state are anachronistically projected backward as part of attempts to construct a modern national identity. Lebanon's contested history offers a window...

...Nadia von Maltzahn Von Maltzahn’s article looks at the relationship of Lebanese artists and cultural players to state institutions, in particular the ministry of culture. Why do cultural players in Lebanon call for the state’s involvement in cultural production, while in most countries...

...Paulo G. Pinto The Arab community in Brazil comprises an estimated 4–6 million immigrants and their descendants and was created by an almost continuous flux of immigrants from the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine) since the nineteenth century. While until the 1970s the Arab immigrants...

...Figure 3. Kamal Junblat quoted: “The Lebanon we want is an Arab, democratic, secular, united Lebanon, and not a Lebanon of sectarianism, exploitation, and collaboration.” Lebanese National Movement, ca. 1978–79. Source: SignsOfConflict.com and the PSP Archives. ...

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... belief in importance, and the tities and loyalties in the Middle East, many times between word millet gradually assumed the meaning of nation.6 minorities and majorities, but in the case of Lebanon between National sentiments always existed among the many groups that are all numerical minorities...

... of a citizen’s sect or gender. Mikdashi teases out the different technologies through which sex, gender, madhhab , and sect are both recognized and practiced in contemporary Lebanon. She calls for the categories of madhhab and sect to be critically reinterrogated, just as the categories of sex and gender were...

...Edith Szanto Szanto’s study examines a collection of Twelver Shi’i children’s books from the Syrian shrine-town of Sayyida Zaynab. As there are few Twelver Shi’is and Shi’i publishers in Syria, the Shi’i children’s books are imported from Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran. As a result, they reflect both...

...Partha Chatterjee Chatterjee’s essay introduces the six articles in “Postcolonial Legalism,” a special section in CSSAAME 34.2. The essays in the section explore the specific field of postcolonial practices of the law in four countries: India, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, and South Africa. The key concern...

..., and Lebanon, the Arab world suffers from what might be called a collapse of witnessing. By focusing on the controversies over the humanization of terrorism in Hany Abu-Assad's film Paradise Now ( Al-Jenna al-an ), I demonstrate the ways in which the film grapples with the construction of a narrative terrorism...